Books for children, books for adults :
Michals, Teresa, 1963-
Books for children, books for adults : age and the novel from Defoe to James / Teresa Michals. - First paperback edition. - ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-261) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Rewriting Robinson Crusoe : age and the island -- 3. Dating Pamela : Mr. B., Goody two-shoes, and the age of consent -- 4. Rational moralists, highland barbarians, and the taste for adventures -- 5. Educating Dickens : Old Boys, Little Mothers, and school time -- 6. "The time of real amusement" : Henry James and the cult of adulthood.
"In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels. Michals considers how historically specific ideas about age shaped not only the readership of novels, but also the ways that characters are represented within them. Arguing that age is first understood through social status, and later through the ideal of psychological development, the book examines the new determination of authors at the end of the nineteenth century, such as Henry James, to write for an audience of adults only. In these novels and in their reception, a world of masters and servants became a world of adults and children."--Provided by publisher.
9781107649262 1107649269
1700-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Books and reading--History.--Great Britain
Books and reading--History.--United States
Fiction--Appreciation--History.
Children's literature--History and criticism.
Adulthood in literature.
Children in literature.
Adulthood in literature.
American fiction.
Books and reading.
Children in literature.
Children's literature.
English fiction.
Fiction--Appreciation.
Great Britain.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR851 / .M53 2016
823.009354
Books for children, books for adults : age and the novel from Defoe to James / Teresa Michals. - First paperback edition. - ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-261) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Rewriting Robinson Crusoe : age and the island -- 3. Dating Pamela : Mr. B., Goody two-shoes, and the age of consent -- 4. Rational moralists, highland barbarians, and the taste for adventures -- 5. Educating Dickens : Old Boys, Little Mothers, and school time -- 6. "The time of real amusement" : Henry James and the cult of adulthood.
"In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels. Michals considers how historically specific ideas about age shaped not only the readership of novels, but also the ways that characters are represented within them. Arguing that age is first understood through social status, and later through the ideal of psychological development, the book examines the new determination of authors at the end of the nineteenth century, such as Henry James, to write for an audience of adults only. In these novels and in their reception, a world of masters and servants became a world of adults and children."--Provided by publisher.
9781107649262 1107649269
1700-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Books and reading--History.--Great Britain
Books and reading--History.--United States
Fiction--Appreciation--History.
Children's literature--History and criticism.
Adulthood in literature.
Children in literature.
Adulthood in literature.
American fiction.
Books and reading.
Children in literature.
Children's literature.
English fiction.
Fiction--Appreciation.
Great Britain.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR851 / .M53 2016
823.009354